Campanile Shanghai Bund Hotel

Campanile Shanghai Bund Hotel sits in Downtown Shanghai, one of those discreet mid-range hotel additions that travellers tend to bookmark before the rest of the city catches on. Geographically speaking it's within an easy walk of the city centre, and the strong location rating in guest reviews backs that up. Rooms…

Campanile Shanghai Bund Hotel sits in Downtown Shanghai, one of those discreet mid-range hotel additions that travellers tend to bookmark before the rest of the city catches on. Geographically speaking it's within an easy walk of the city centre, and the strong location rating in guest reviews backs that up. Rooms feel practical; the touches travellers mention most are an in-house restaurant and reliable wi-fi, and the comfort feedback has been mixed but acceptable. There's a particular atmosphere to the place, neither overdesigned nor neglected. Pull the review pages apart and you find well over 3,000 reviews, with a solid consensus that's hard to engineer. Reputation has held up across enough stays to mean something. Pricing has been sitting near €67 a night and the value score puts it in a fair-value bracket compared with similar properties. The honest read on Campanile Shanghai Bund Hotel is that it deserves a side-by-side look against the bigger Shanghai names rather than a headline of its own.